Platinum, pink gold and jade stone – elegance and refinement at its best. The hour is indicated through a window at 12 o’clock, while the minutes are displayed on a sub-dial at 6 o’clock. This is a version of the Jumping Hours with a dial of black jade stone, cut to 0.40mm thick. Chapter ring, in printed pink gold, as is the brand logo above the hour window. In 2024, ANDERSEN Genève has once more created a 50-piece limited edition designed to delight its worldwide collectors. The Jumping Hours Black Jade Stone.
This time, ANDERSEN Genève is presenting an exceptional version of the acclaimed Jumping Hours, launched in 2020 to celebrate the brand’s 40th anniversary. A complication loved both for its minimalist elegance and for the emphasis it brings to the dial itself, the Jumping Hours holds particular significance for ANDERSEN Genève.
In 1995 Svend Andersen was first commissioned to create a watch with such a display, combining it with a minute repeater. It subsequently became requested in a number of “pièce unique” commissions, and famously gave rise to one of the most recognisable ANDERSEN Genève inventions, the “Jour & Nuit”. This ingenious design, which used the Jumping Hours module to carry a double-ended ‘jumping’ 24-hour hand, led to a series of watches made for Cartier in 1998, as well as well-known editions for ANDERSEN Genève.
In recent years, ANDERSEN Genève has taken the Jumping Hours complication to new levels of artistry and beauty, as a platform for watches that emphasise traditional craft above all else. Its Jumping Hours watches were nominated at Grand Prix d’Horlogerie de Genève (GPHG) awards, in the Artistic Crafts category, in 2020, 2021 and 2023.
Horological Art: Jumping Hours – Black Jade Stone
ANDERSEN Genève once again presents an exceptionally refined interpretation of the classic Jumping Hours complication, in a version that pairs a hand-crafted platinum case with a dial of black jade stone: a subtle and exceptionally beautiful combination.
This Jumping Hours combines a platinum case, plus pink gold crown, with a unique dial of pure jade stone, delicately cut to a thickness of just 0.4mm and worked to a perfectly flat, flawless finish. This requires incredible skill to create without breaking it: at its thinnest point, where the hour wheel is recessed beneath it, the dial is just 0.25mm thick.
The effect is bewitching. Seen from afar, the dial seems a deep, alluring black, forming a rich contrast with the minutes hand, chapter ring and brand logo in powdered pink gold. Close inspection, however, reveals the veins and details running through the jade – the unique qualities of the stone. It is a watch that showcases both the minimalistic elegance and the high craftsmanship of the Jumping Hours, in the most luxurious and alluring way.
ANDERSEN Genève Jumping Hours Black Jade Stone
The reverse of the watch is equally enchanting: a sapphire glass case-back reveals the flawless hand-finishing of the movement, including meticulous champfering around the individual parts, Côtes de Genève decoration and mirror-polishing of the screw-heads, all performed in-house by ANDERSEN Genève artisans. The automatic movement is wound up by a majestically decorated rotor in 18ct pink gold hand guilloche “grains d’orge”. Topped off with a small plate on the bridge where one can see the “A” ANDERSEN Logo (A, in pink). The plate is screwed thanks to a tiny -blued steel screw!
The movement is encircled by a ring of 21ct BlueGold, created via a unique heat treating process. To achieve 21ct BlueGold, the 24ct gold is mixed with iron elements and heat-treated to turn it a radiant shade of blue – a technique that, in watches, ANDERSEN Genève alone has mastered, and which results in a unique tonality for each ring. A spectrum of colors can be obtained from light blue, dark blue, brown (champagne color), purple and grey. Finally the ring is hand engraved with the number of the timepiece “ X/50 ”.
The watch is powered by the Frédéric Piguet 11.50 movement, an exceptional, artisanally-made Swiss calibre. Its ultra-slim dimensions make it a perfect base to carry the jumping hours mechanism developed and assembled in-house by ANDERSEN Genève , while its two-barrel architecture ensures a long power reserve of up to 70 hours.
ANDERSEN Genève Jumping Hours Black Jade Stone
ANDERSEN Genève Jumping Hours Black Jade Stone
ANDERSEN Genève Jumping Hours Black Jade Stone Technical Specifications
Calibre Frédéric Piguet 11.50 double barrel automatic movement
18ct pink gold rotor decorated with “grains d’orge” (barley grain) hand guilloché pattern
3Hz (21,600 A/h)
28 jewels
72 hours power reserve.
Jumping hours mechanism developed and assembled in house by ANDERSEN Genève.
Case
Platinum Pt950 case with pink gold crown Flanks are satin brushed, while the bezel is mirror polished Curving lugs made separately in traditional style, and welded to the case
Water Resistant: 30m
Case Diameter: 38.00 mm
Case Height: 9.22 mm
Dial
Jade stone with hand applied black lacquer coating
Hour indicated through a window at 12 o’clock
Minutes indicated by a pink gold hand on a sub-dial at 6 o’clock
Railway-style chapter ring printed in pink gold, as is the ANDERSEN Genève logo above the hour window
Strap
Hand-stitched black suede strap with platinum buckle
About ANDERSEN Genève ANDERSEN Genève has been creating high-end timepieces for collectors around the world since 1980. Founded by Svend Andersen, a master watchmaker and co-founder of the Académie Horlogère des Créateurs Indépendants (AHCI), the brand is renowned for watches of significant complexity, innovation and beauty. With almost all its output made to order in either customised or fully-bespoke commissions, it is among the most exclusive high-end watchmakers in the world, producing no more than 50 watches annually – in fact, fewer than 1,300 timepieces have been manufactured since 1980. Two small teams working in the heart of Geneva and, since 2022 in La Chaux-de-Fonds, are learning and transmitting the horological traditions. In almost 45 years, the Geneva Atelier has remained at the same location next to the Rhône river, where traditional watchmaking artisans have worked for centuries.
